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insight - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | insight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intuitiveness, awareness |
| Synonyms: | acumen, click*, comprehension, discernment, divination, drift*, intuition, judgment, observation, penetration, perception, perspicacity, sagacity, sapience, shrewdness, understanding, vision, wisdom, perceptivity, sagaciousness, sageness, wavelength |
| Notes: | incite means to provoke or stir up while insight means clear or deep perception of a situation |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, astuteness, awareness, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, perspicacity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, shrewdness, smarts*, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit, acuity, brains, brilliance, good taste, percipience, perspicuity, sharpness, smartness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, stupidity, denseness, ineptness, obtuseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clairvoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intuition |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, insight, omen, penetration, perception, precognition, premonition, psyche, sixth sense*, telepathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cognizance/cognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, apprehension, attention, awareness, comprehension, discernment, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, need, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, reasoning, recognition, regard, percipience |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | empathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | affinity, appreciation, communion, compassion, comprehension, concord, insight, pity, rapport, recognition, soul, sympathy, warmth, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, community of interests, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, picking up on, responsiveness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness |
| Main Entry: | enlightenment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, understanding |
| Synonyms: | civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom, bodhi, broad-mindedness, open-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement |
| Main Entry: | foresight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental preparedness |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, care, caution, clairvoyance, discernment, discretion, economy, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity, canniness, carefulness, circumspection, discreetness, far-sightedness, long-sightedness, prenotion |
| Antonyms: | hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inspiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, stimulus |
| Synonyms: | animus, approach, awakening, brainstorm*, creativity, elevation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exaltation, fancy, flash*, genius, hunch*, illumination, impulse, incentive, influence, insight, motivation, motive, muse, notion, revelation, rumble, spark, spur, stimulation, thought, vision, whim, afflatus, arousal, brainchild, deep think, inflatus |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interpretation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | analysis, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, clarification, comprehension, discernment, explanation, grasp, grip, insight, judgment, knowing, meaning, perception, reading, slant, translation |
| Main Entry: | ken |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perception |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, attention, attitude, awareness, cognizance, comprehension, concept, consciousness, grasp, idea, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, picture, realizing, recognition, sense, sight, understanding, vision, apprehending |
| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, apprehension, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how*, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, inside story, principles, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding, idea |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, approach, attention, attitude, awareness, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, discernment, feeling, flash, grasp, image, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, observation, opinion, perspicacity, picture, plan, realizing, recognition, sagacity, sensation, sense, study, taste, thought, viewpoint, apprehending, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, intellection |
| Main Entry: | precognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clairvoyance |
| Synonyms: | ESP, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, foresight, insight, intuition, omen, penetration, perception, prediction, premonition, prophecy, psyche, second sight, sixth sense*, telepathy, extra sensory perception, fortune-telling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sagacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wisdom |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, experience, foresight, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, sapience, sense, shrewdness, understanding, brains, clear thinking, good judgment, levelheadedness, perceptiveness, sageness |
| Main Entry: | savvy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shrewdness |
| Synonyms: | acumen, awareness, comprehension, discernment, experience, grasp, grip, insight, intellect, intelligence, judgment, know-how, knowing, knowledge, mastery, perception, sense, smarts*, understanding, perceptiveness, sharpness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sensibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsiveness; ability to feel |
| Synonyms: | affection, appreciation, awareness, discernment, emotion, feeling, gut reaction*, heart*, insight, intuition, judgment, keenness, rationale, sensation, sense, sensitivity, sentiment, susceptibility, taste, perceptiveness, sensitiveness, vibes |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference, insensibility, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sixth sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extrasensory perception |
| Synonyms: | ESP, ESP*, clairvoyance, divination, extrasensory perception, feeling, feeling in one's bones, foreknowledge, foresight, gut feeling, gut feeling, hunch, insight, instinct, intuition, intuitiveness, keen intuition, perception, premonition, second sight, second sight*, telepathy, vibes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | telepathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to know another's thoughts |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, insight, premonition, presentiment, second sight*, sixth sense*, mind-reading, parapsychology, spiritualism, telepathic transmission, telesthesia, thought transference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discernment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perception |
| Synonyms: | acumen, insight, judgment, understanding |
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